Let's get one thing out of the way: Robert F. Kennedy's claim that he wants to "make America healthy again" is, like most things he says, a flat-out lie. Donald Trump's nominee to run Health and Human Services (HHS) is a conspiracy theorist who opposes not just vaccines but science-based medicine generally, promoting a bunch of "alternatives" that are often actively bad for people. Certainly, Kennedy and his defenders pretend to believe in healthy eating and exercise. As journalist Michael Hobbes pointed out on Bluesky, however, such rhetoric is one of the fig leaves vaccine critics use "to make their ideas seem palatable." Most of what Kennedy claims is "healthy" is very much not. Even when Kennedy mixes in a couple of truly healthy ideas, like eating vegetables, into the mix, he does so to promote the lie that the medical establishment supposedly discourages this behavior.
This is a list of things that are either: A) 'suppressed' because they are quack bullshit (raw milk, chelating compounds) or B) not remotely 'suppressed'! Every health agency in the country already promotes vitamins and sunshine.
— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) December 13, 2024 at 11:54 AM
